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: «£& \ THE caaLi.. j — — PAWNING TO NONE—CHARITY TO ALL. ' ' 1 ■*■" ' ■ ■ ' ■ iMicaitt 1 • *—. i —— ■'—■■■ ' -I-, it. .<>'& YOLUME IX. DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY (5, 1887. TOMBED CHURCH DIRECTORY, METHODIST—DousLAgynxE^Firsl- *' third and fifth Sundays. Sam SritixGS—Second Sunday and Saturday before. Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur day before. Geo. E. Bonner, Pastor, aw BAPTISE—DocoLAsvn.r.E—First and fourth Sundays. W. J. Spears, Pastor. f MASONIC. Douglasville Lodge No. 289 F. & A. M. Meets on Saturday at 4 P. M. before the first and third Sundays in each month. J. 0. Wright, W, M., J. L. Perkins, Secretary, Winston; Ga. COUNTY DIRECTORY. Ordinary—II. T. Cooper. ©erk—S. N.' Dorsett. Sheriff—Henry Ward. - 'Deputy Sheriff— G. M, Souter. Tax Beoeiver—E. H. Camp. Tax Collector—W. A. gayer. Treasurer—Samuel Shannon. Surveyor^—John M. Huey. Cororer—F. M. •Mitchell. SUPERIOR COURT. Meets on third Mondays in January and July and holds two weeks. Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris. Sol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid. Clerk—S. In. Dorsett. Sheriff—Henry Ward. COUNTY COURT. Meets in. quarterly session on fourth Mondays in February, May, August and ■ November and holds until all the cases on the docket are called. In monthly session it meets on the fourth Mondays in each month. Judge-—Hon. R. A. Massey. Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T« Roberts. Bailiff-D. W. Johns. . ordinary’s COURT. Meets for ordinary purposes on first Monday, and for county; purposes on first Tuesday in each month. ■ * Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper. . , JUSTICES’ COURTS. 780 tli Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday in each month. J. £ Feely, J. P., W H. Cash,. N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K Hur t, L. C’s. 736th Dist. G. M, mefits second Satur day. A.R. Bomar, J. P B.A. Arnold N. P., S, C. Yeager, L. C. 784 Dist, G. M. meets fourth Saturda 1 Franklin Carver, J. I’., C. B. Baggett, N. P., J. C. James andM.'S. Gore, L. C’s. 1269th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur, day. T. M. Hamilton, J. P., M, I,. Yates, N. P., S. W. Riggers, L. C., S. J. Jourdan, L. C. 1260th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur day.: N. W. Camp, J. P., W. S. Hud- - son, ML P., J. A. Hill., L. V. • 1271st Dist. G. M. meets first Satur day. C. 0. Clinton, J.- P., Alberrv Hembree, N. P., , L. C, ; 1272d Dist. G. M. meets fourth Fri day. George W. Smith, J. P., C. J. Robinson, N. P., , L. C. 1273d Dist, G, M. meets third Friday. Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P. W. J, Harbin, L. 0. SOUTHERN ITEMS. Professional Cards, J. H. McLARTY, ATTORNEY ATEAW. DOUGLASVILLE •' ga. Will privotico in ali tli:© c< urts, both State anti Fetltral. ('ti^ecUons a Bpccia (y. ROBERT A. MASSI'y”" ATTOBNBY AT L & W DOUGLASVILLE, GA. (Office in front room, Dorsett’s BmMing., Will practice anywhero^xcept .iii tlu: Count} Court of Doiiglass connty. ATTORn lY * ’k*T LAW, Will practice in alj the courts, State Federal.- Office on Court Mouse Square, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. WM. T. ROBERTS, ATTORNEY AT i AW, DQUGLASYILLE, GA. Will practice in all the Courts. All HMl business will receive prompt attention. Office in Court Honse. C. D CAMP. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the courts. All bnsiness •ntrusted to him will receive prompt attention. B. G. GRIGGS. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the courts, State and Federal. JOHN i, EDGE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the courts, and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. J. S. JAiES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in tne courts of Douglass, Campbell, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and aiUShing counties. Prompt attention given ; ■ ■: JIHN V. EDGE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, B3&3LAS VILLI, GA. JOB PRINTINI NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. FLORIDA. Miss Rose E. Cleveland, sister of the president, is expected in Orlando some time time this winter, to visit a Mrs. Duncan residing there; A resident of .Orlando has a Mexican chocho on exhibition. _ It is similar to an egg plant, and it- -is his intention to ex periment with the seeds on Florida soil. The Methodist college north will be lo cated at Orange City. Twenty-two thou sand dollars have been raised. The prospects are bright for a prosperous in stitution. John Wiley, a notorious negro, jumped out of a railroad Car window in Alachua county recently, while under arrest. There was a rope about his neck. An end caught'in the car and he was choked to death. Figures from the tax books of Florida show the total value of all kinds of prop- ertp to be $76,610,042. The railroad companies pay taxes bn $12,752,331 worth of property, The total state tax is $328,038, and the county tax is $666,- 879. • I. S. Giddeons & Co. will commence work on their brick building at Tampa next week. It is to be a handsome two- story building.' - General J, B. Wall says that he will have the handsomest front on his new hriclc building in the city. Work is progressing nicely. The wife of O. L. LeBarbn, of Pensa cola, while looking oyer some letters was surprised to find a valuable document musty with age, which her father-in-law had given her in 1849, It was a certifi cate for $500 worth of valuable stock. The estate not yet having been settled up, she will come into the possession of the sum called for by the certificate. She had forgotten the gift until after nearly forty years had, elapsed. She was re minded of it by the document falling from a bundle of chocolate colored let ters. Considerable indignation exists among the bar pilots at Pensacola over the fact that the barkentine Cushing slipped into port Wednesday without pilotage. This is said to be only the second instance of the kind for the past two years, known to the pilot’s association, and steps are' likely to be taken to compel the Cushing to pay the pilotage she avoided, and if it is not attempted it will be because of the «pquenqy ,0f, her visits, to that port, as sue goes there three or four times annu ally. The Gushing will be remembered as the vessel in which Brown, the Swed ish suicide, arrived about two weeks ago. The South Florida exposition will be held at Orlando, beginning, on Tuesday, February 15. The grounds) which have been tendered by the citizens of that en terprising city, will comprise a race course, including a lake, and also ample accommodation for the display of varied exhibits of the growth and products of Florida, especially those of the counties of Orange, Volusia, Sumter, Polk, Hills boro, Hernando, Brevard, Wade, Mana tee and Monroe; -The exhibits will also embrace mineral, mechanical and such other articles or productions as may lend interest or value to the exhibition. Dr. King Wylly, of Sanford, has an orange which he has just received from Messina, Sicily, which came from the fa mous orange tree planted by Pope Hon- orius IH. in the St. Sabina convent gar den 665 years ago. It is firmly believed by the monks of the Dominican order to flourish or fail with the fortunes of the order, so that it has lately been greatly the worse for the suppression of the con vent in Northern Italy, though the resi dence of Pere LaCordaire within the con vent proved exceedingly beneficial to it, and bis visit, has even caused new suckers to sprout. The trunk of the tree is about twelve inches in diameter, and about twenty feet high The orange was sent to Dr. Wylly by Wallace S. Jones, of Monticello. NORTH CAROLINA. Quite a lengthy petition of Winston tobacconists has been forwarded to con-, gress asking for a repeal of the-internal revenue tax. Mr. Frank Hege, of Twin City, has two foxes. One of them is so ,trained that by calling to him and telling it to kiss him it will jump up and put her mouth to his cheek. —Tuesday morning of last week the wife of Mr. Julius Fox of Lexington, N. C., attempted to kindle a fire by the aid of keroseUe^ifThe can explodeed, her cloth ing ignited and before assistance could be rendered, she was so cadly burned that death resulted the same day. The de ceased had just passed her eighteenth year and leaves a child only three months of age. Winston Republican: From an adjoin ing county comes an instance of two things—the power of money and the dis regard of some men for the truth. A cer tain person paid another individual $2 to tell a lie. In a settlement between the two upon some matter, before a magis trate, the $2 was included in an itemized bill, v.z: “To telling a lie, $2,” and the justice, of the peace granted judgment upon the same. The Wilmington Light Infantry com pany are making arrangements for an en campment of the Second regiment North Carolina state guard, which it is proposed to hold in Wilmington on the 19th, 20th and 21st of May next. The visiting com panies of the regiment, the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry, the Shoe Heel Rifles, the Sampson Light Infantry and the Smithville Guard, will be the guests of our home company. If SAM DOME TH “ITU 1 LULA HURST MARRIED- Miss Lula Hurst, the electric girl of Georgia, was married on Wednesday night last at Cedartown, Ga, to Mr. Paul Atkinson, of Chattanooga, Tenn. SOUTH CAROLINA. Taylor Warren, colored, is in jail at Yorkville awaiting trial for breaking into the store of Herndon Bros., at Yorkville;; He has confessed his guilt. Incendiaries attempted to destroy the cornhouse of T. L. Cave, of Hampton county. The fire was discovered and ex tinguished before any great damage was done. .Black, Carpenter & Davies, at Black’s in York county, have made an assign ment, Dr. John G. Black being the as signee. The assets of the firm are stated at $7,200, with liabilities amounting to $6,500. An attempt was made to burn the corn house of Mr. W. S. Gocley, Snider’s cross roads, in Colleton county. The fire was discovered in time to be extin guished before any great damage could be done. Colonel Rice; state superintendent of j education, does not aim to stay in Col- I umbia only when it is necessary to attend to official duties. He will spend most of his time visiting different counties and inspecting the schools. It was rumored on the streets of Greenville that a negro was in town who had just been brought down from the mountains, and who did not know until he was told that, the negroes had been freed from slavery. A correspondent traced the rumor and succeeded in inter rogating the alleged reclaimed slave. He found a negro, black, shabbily dressed and with a dull, senseless look, below that of the ordinary darkey. The story he tells is that since, the war he has been working for a man named Holly, away back in one of the narrow valleys around “Hog Back” mountain; that he was hot allowed to comeback to his king- people, and that he was flogged by his master, who never paid him any money and gave him but little clothes. His name is Calvin Garmany. His brother lives near this city. He says that after the war Calvin strayed off to the moun tains, and was not heard of by his family until last Christmas, when he heard (hat he was being kept as a slave by a man in that section. He went after him and claims that he found him treated, whipped and confined just as in slavery times”?,-. His story created some exciter ment atftqng the negroes, who firmly believe the fean-bas been kept these long years in the'solitary mountain fastnesses in ignorance of his race’s freedom else- , where. MISSISSIPPI. Work on the street railway in Green ville has commenced. The last beer license has expired in Durant, and the town is as dry as a -bone. • - ■ j v~ The military company organized by the ypuug ladies of Crystal Springs will be called “the Mikado.” -Eight thousand bales of Cotton are held in the warehouse at Aberdeen, waiting for a rise before putting it on the market. Two negroes swapped wives in Cal houn cbiifitj recently. : Articles Of agree ment were drawn up to clinch the bar gain. At the recent term of the circuit court in Pike county the grand jury in dicted the Illinois Central railroad for workingits men in the shops atMcComb City on Sunday. - The books of the Louisville, New Or leans and Texas railroad show that over 500,600 bales of cotton have been shipped over that road in the past four months. p Friday evening last, Mr. Wm. Pibus, living near Chewalls, started home on Eis mule. It was intensely dark and the rain poured in torrents. His mule came home without the rider, when, upon search being made, he was found speechless from cold and exposure. He died shortly after being discovered. At a concert given by Professor Er- rington at Brier Hill, Rankin county, Mr. Willie: Manning, one of the per former^, about twenty-two years of age; was shot by another performer while both were on the stage, and seriously wounded. The revolver used was thought to have been properly loaded for the occa sion,but it contained a heavy charge of powder'tightly wadded with tallow. It took effect in the shoulder, inflicting a painful wou.nl which may prove fatal. LOUISIANA. Over $400 has been subscribed for the building of the Young Men’s Christian association at Minden. The St. Gabriel levee is now completed It measures seventy feet base and twelve feet high and contains about 85,000 cubic yards of dirt. Alexander Young and Nathan Surgon, alias Mickens, escaped from the. Terre bonne parish jail last thursday. night by breaking one of the iron bars in the lin tel or transom over the outer door. Last Thursday, at William’s mill, east of Tangipahoa river, Mr- Alfred Hughes was killed in a fight with two men named Parks and Carpenter. Hughes had ac cused the others of hog stealing, and the matter was brought up when the parties met at the mill and led to a fight. While Hughes was engaged with one opponent, the other came up and beat him. on the head'with a wagon spoke, breaking hit skull. He died that night... The two men were arrested and lodged in jail. The Amite City regulators have no! disbanded it seems, though they have been quiet of late, The Gazette says: “At about 9:30 o’clock Wednesday nighl while there were yet a number of persons out of their beds, an equestrian masquer ading party was observed parading the streets of our town. A dance was in progress at a residence, and as the party rode by one of them called out “balance all!’’ This attracted the attention of the dancers, and some of the young men went out to get a look at the strangers. It is said that they numbered thirty-two and were all in uniform, the horses being draped in white. Their presence created no little excitement,” There Is a man in Venice who can speak ninety three languages. How in valuable he would have been to superin tend the construction of the Tower of Babel, A SHOCKING AFFAIR. Tie County Seat of Gilmer County; Ga., Has aSiiocking) Sensation. :■ A big sensation has been developed in Sllijay, Ga. On Sunday night the fam ily of John E. Newberry was reposing in sleep, and the first intimation he had-of I the impending danger was the unlooked- for appearance of three burly men, dis guised, with a lamp, a double-barrel shotgun, and a thirty-eight Smith & Wesson.pistol. He jumped out of bed and they proceeded to beat him with a large hickory stick about four feet long, twisted at; one end, the other end . being about as large as a man’s wrist. During the melee which ensued- Newberry’s wife tore away the masksof two of them, and saw who they were, f He told them if they would let him go he would not tell w’ho they were, whereupon they replied with ari oath that they would kill him. His wife seized the gun -and wrenched it. from the man who held it, when, he grabbed her by the Siair of the head and jerked her down. They then 'Seized Newberry by the hair of his head and dragged him some twenty steps from the* house and knocked 1 him down with a maul, and, thinking him dead, skipped out. Newberry and his wife fought des perately for their, lives, -and when (bey dragged, him out of the house her Screams brought Mr. David Fow ler, a brother-in-law of Newberry. lie found Newbepry in an unconscious condition, his shoulders, the back of his neck terri bly beaten and bruised. His body Mon-: day morning was bloodshot and black looking, and his neck swollen larger than a man’s double fist. Newberry was accused of" reporting men in that community to the revenue department, and this!affair is supposed to be the outgrowth of malice towards him from some parties: whb'Suspected his reporting.' A brother of Newberry stated to an attorney .that some other party had been reporting and gave his brother’s name as a witness, and when required to he swore what he knew as a truthful EVICTING TENANTS. A Bloody Battle Takes Flaoe In Texas In Which Four Men are Killed. A deadly battle was fought’ four miles of Dekalb Texas Tuesday^ Four male members of a family named White were pitted against Colonel John E. Rosser, his son Willie, aged fifteen years, and a hired man named Mullens.' The affray resulted in the killing of three of the Whites and Colonel Kosser, and the wounding of Rosser’s boy. The affray occurred at the home of the Whites. Ros ser, after being shqt through the neck and having, as he supposed, seen all of his enemies killed)?- mounted his horse and rode half a mile to his house, flying as he entered his own door. His son Willie was left with the dead men at the house of White. Rosser had sold to White and,his sons a tract of land for which they had not paid. A suit for evictment was brought and decided in Rosser’s favor. Rosser thought the writ had not been enforced promptly enough, and he started with his son and a hired man to enforce it himself. Informally. Rosser and the party were invited in when they reached the house of White, and after a few words, firing began, J. C. White and his two sons, Walter and Law- son, were killed. Young Rosser was inside and his version of the affair is as follows: The elder White shot him and his father, and he shot old man White once and then turned his Winchester on the White boys to keep them from shoot ing his father. About fifteen shots were fired and with‘deadly effect. The hired man, Mullens, has not yet been found, and it is not known what part he took in the awful tragedy. A STEAMER ABLAZE. The Steamship Cherokee, of the Clyde Line, Slightly Damaged by Fire. The steamship, Cherokee, of the Clyde line, bound for New York, caught fire after leaving the dock at Charleston. Tuesday morning. The fire broke out in the afterhold in cotton. The steamer signalled tugs and was quickly redocked. The fire department responded promptly to the summons and the fire was soon under control. There was no panic on -board, although there were about forty passengers, including a number of ladies. The damage was slight. The fire was completely extinguished, in a few hours. It occurred in a watertight compartment of the afterhold sand was confined to the spot where it started. The cause of the fire is unknown. The damage to the ship and her cargo was trifling. WhilA flooding the hol$l, James Warren, the ship’s quartermaster from Norfolk, H| was struck by a falling/box and seriously injured. The passengers, with their baggage, were sent north by rail. BURNED TO DEATH. William Farris, employed by the Dela ware iron works;-Wilmington, Del, waft made the.; victim of a practical joke Thursday, by bis fellow workmen, which cost his life. He was dozing at noon, when one of his companions threw some blazing cotton waste in his face. It set his clothes on fire, and he was burned so badly lie died in a couple of hours. He refused to tell who was responsible for his death, although he knew. * A TRIPLE HANGING. ; A mob of masked men, about thirty- five strong, entered the jail at Soguin, Guadalupe county; Texas, Wednesday morning, and after overpowering the jailer took three negroes, Coiy Thomp son, Andy Williams and Warren U ilson, and hanged them to trees in full view of the town. On each victim was'feacked this notice:; “Killed for murder and arson.” None of the mob lias been av rested,-. OUR «OLD EXPORTS. The gold exports this year was ordered Tuesday by Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co., who have taxen $300,000 in. gold bars from the assay office for shipment to Europe; This was a decided surprise. There is no apparent reason for such u. shipment, and it is concluded it was-to serve some special purpose, ACROSS THE WATERS. Excitement in the London Stock Exchange- Panic in London and Paris* There was intense excitement on the stock exchange all Thursday afternoon, and at the close of the market a panicky feeling prevailed. The unfavorable state of the market was due chiefly to reports of heavy failures en the Paris bourse and to a rumor that a large banking institu tion in Berlin had collapsed. Panic on the stock exchange set in with the greatest force in the afternoon. Earlier in the day English buying met the continental rush to soli, but later alarm seized English operators, and the torrent of sellers became so great that dealers refused to make prices. The wildest rumors were credited, ahd the best home and foreign securieties were largely sold. Business continued active in the street until “petite bourse” quota tions were received, which showed the panic was intensifying on the continent and caused depression and anxiety. At the close the reckless selling of railroad securities was partially checked by New York buying, besides England, Berlin and Paris threw large masses of stock on the market. AT PARIS. At Paris three per cent rentes declined and were quoted at 76 francs, a fall of 2 francs and 45 centimes from the closing quotations of the day previous. Bourse opened depressed.: Besides po litical rumors aUd general financial mis trust, the suspension of all credit made the transaction of business almost an im- . possibility. An opinion pre vails that un less the banks and great capitalists come to the relief of the market, disastrous failures are inevitable. IRISH ITEMS. The Limerick municipal council has refused to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee, on the ground that the Queen has visited Ireland only twice and has never assisted Irish Charities. Micheal Davitt and his wife arrived at Dublin Thursday, and were enthusiastic ally greeted. They were escorted to their hotel by a torch-light procession and bands of music. A BIG FIRE IN MOBILE. MUTINY AMONG CONVICTS. At the stockade for convicts on the Asheville and Spartanburg railrqad, at Gash’s creek, four miles from Asheville, N. O., a mutiny of the prisoners occurred Monday flight. About forty of the hun dred convicts stationed there refused to retire for the night, and the officers who went inside! to adjust matters were stoned from a barrel of rocks they had for some time been accumulating. Tuesday morn ing when ordered out to work they re fused to do so, aud defiantly cursed the guard, composed of only ten men. Sixty of the convicts Came’ out, the other forty refusing. This placed the guards in a dilemma. They fired over the heads of the defiant convicts, but this only en raged them: the more, and they swore they were n °t afraid of blank cartridges. Small shot was procured and the guards fired into the mutinous crowd and wounded a number of them in the legs. This brought them to terms, and several of them were taken to the hospital. THE SITUATION AT MASSOWAH. The Republique Francaise of Paris, publishes a dispatch from the Suez, which states that in : the battles; between the Abyssinians and Italians, near Massowab, January 25th and 26th, the Abyssinians captured all the guns possessed by the Italians. It also says that of 148 Italians who were engaged in the fights, hot more than fifty escaped. The dispatch adds that the Italians have evacuated all their advanced positions, and that the Abyss inians have already attacked and carried the first line of Italian entrenchments around Massowah The latter success, it is stated, was achieved by the Abyssin- ians on the 27th of January, the day after the destruction of the Italian forces in the field, and the latest intelligence; re ceived indicated that it was doubtful whether the Italians would be able to hold out at Massowah until the arrival of reinforcements. LOOKOUT AT FHILADELPHIA. Monday morning the Clothing Ex change of Philadelphia, Pa., carried out its threat and the Clothing; manufactur ers composing that body closed the doors to cutters who are Knights of Labor. The latter are defiant, and are determined to fight the employers to .the end. The lockout throws 1,000 cutters out of em ployment and fully ten times that num ber of others who depend on them for employment. NO HORSBS TO BE EXPORTED. The government of Russia has forbid den the exportation of horses from that country. The Frenoh government has made large purchases of Russian oats for the use of the Frenoh cavalry and: has chart-: creel a number of steamers to convey them rom B altio ports to France. LABOR STRIKERS. Property Considerably Damaged—One Man Killed and Others Missing. A fire at Mobile, Ala., Monday morn- ing destroyed the jyholesale; drug house oA m. T. Sprague & Co., at No. 14 N. Water street. The building snd stock are ® total loss. The loss on the build ing is $8 , OOOi insured for $5,000, and on stock $20,000; insured for $12,.000. Ad joining buildings were slightly damaged. Aj Barnstein & Co’s stock of boots and “shoes was" damaged* considerably by water, aud is insured for $7,500. Dur ing the progress of the fire, the rear wall of the Sprague building fell upon the two-story brick next east and broke in the roof and walls, which fell upon a number of men engaged in removing a stock of liquor therefrom, belonging to James McDonnell. The heavy barrels and mass of brick which fell covered Mr. McDonnell and killed him instantly. Mr, McDonnell was head of the firm of Wholesale grocers of that name doing a large business for a number of years on Commerce street. Frank McLarny, mem ber of the same'firm, was seriously but not fatally injured. Others are thought to be under the mass of brick. Boston, Massachusetts, Street Cars Tied Up by Them. The employes of the South Boston horse railroad, at a meeting Monday morning, voted unanimously to tie up the roads, and in pursuance of the vote no cars were taken out that morning. The men are opposed to the present superin tendent, and want ten hours’ work of a twelve hour day; The difficulty seems to be chiefly in making out tables. The company claims that it is impossible to arrange them so as to give ten hours in side . of twelve and the proper time for meals.. The track layers and car repairers of the South Boston road have joined the strikers.: After the determination to tie up the road committees were at once ap pointed to patrol the streets and notify all patrons of the road that there were no cats running that morning, and to watch the stables and inf orm all of the employes who appeared to go to work that their brothers had decided upon a tie up. Every man who voted to tie up also took a pledge to abstain from all intoxicating liquors while the tie up might last. During the morning every stable was .guarded by employes of the road to pre vent morning cars being taken out. A detachment of policemen was sent to the stables to protect the property of the road, and any men who might undertake to run out a oar. Up to noon not a non union man had appeared upon the scene at either stable to take Out a car. The directors of the company met and decided to advertise for men. at once to fill the places of strikers. The directors expressed themselves as determined to fight the matter to the last. AT WORCESTER, MASS. All members of the Knights of Labor now working in boot and shoe shops at Worcester, Mass,, the proprietors of which refuse to treat with committees of labor organizations and state that they will make terms with employes only as individuals, have been ordered to quit work to-morrow by the joint executive board of the Knights of Labor. The or der is intended to get out workmen who are now at work on* shoes filling orders. If these orders are not filled on time con siderable loss will be caused, and to pre vent this the executive board expect the manufacturers will come to terms. The manufacturers will wait; however, to see how strong the organization is before .they call for a conference. WASHINGTON ITEMS. Six New WarVe»»ols to be U;:li,'7 riI0te, t''t't 10 Postofllce Appropriation' Bill. As a result of the considerur l °n of the Arious Mile, leaking to <n new naval vessels, the guU^ om 34ttee of the house committee on nafeflj-ilEnfs has drafted a bill which was laid before the full committee, providing fori the construction or two steel cruisers of 40^ 000,tons burden of the Newark type; cost, exclusive of armament, of not more than $1,300,000 each; to be equipped with the best type of modern engines, boilers and machinery ; four steel gun boats of 1,700 tons displacement. All of the vessels are to be built as-far as may be in compliance with the terms of the act of August 8, 1886. The bill appro • priates $2,400,000 to begin the work. The postoffice appropriation bill was reported by the senate committee on ap propriations. The committee made but two amendments. The first was Mr. Frye’s proposition for the foreign mail service so changed as to appropriate $500, 000 for the carriage of mails to Brazil, Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay. The contracts for this service are made subject to the approval of con gress. The other amendment gives au thority to put letter boxes in buildings which are freely opened to the public during business hours, modifying to that extent the house piovisioD limiting the authority of the department in this re spect. The president has accepted the resigna tion of Gen. P. M. B. Young, of Georgia) consul-general at St. Petersburg, but has not yet selected his successor. A NEW PUNISHMENT A Lyons, Mich., Schoolmaster’s Oscillatory performance. A school t eacher of Lyons, Mich., named Israel Guinn Rounds, has been having a high time with his young lady pupils. He prescribed a new punishment in his school, and inflicted it on the girls for the slightest infraction of the rules. It con sisted in kissing them. Some of* the fair pupils objected more than others, and these Rounds encircled with his arms, by way of extra punishment, and gave them a harder kissing. Mr. Rounds’ fun has now been stopped; The trustees of the school (out of envy, Rounds says) have preferred seven different charges against the osculatory teacher; who will be re moved. He admits tne kissing and says it was all done for fun, 1 A BIG PAPER MILL FAILS. The Dennison Paper Company, of Me chanics’ Falls, Me., has suspended. It is supposed that the liabilities amount to $450,000. The assets are the plant, mills and pulp mill at Canton. Two years ago the Dennisons got an act through the the Legislature allowing them to form a stock company and issub bonds. , Since then their condition hasbeen precautions, but the thing which hastened suspension was a strike in the pulp mill at Canton. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. A shock of earthquake about 4 o’clock Sunday morning is* reported, from St. Louis, Springfield, Terre Haute and else where. It appears to have been very generally felt throughout central and Southern Illinois, and Indiana, Dis patches from twenty different, points give substantially the same account-as to hour and duration of shocks. No damage done at any place as far; as heard from. IRON ORE NEAR NATCHEZ, MIGS. Iron ore in paying quantities and evi dently of splendid quality has been dis covered near Natchez, Miss. Samples of the ore are being assayed, and if it proves as good as it looks to local ex perts a company will be formed to de velop the lead, which is many miles in extent. THE COTTON REPORT, The Quality of the Staple is Reported Su perior. The Price of Seed Is Low; The final report of the cotton crop for 1886 shows the average date of closing the picking season, the proportion of the crop marketed on the 1st of Feb ruary, the quality of the staple, price of seed, and the estimated product com- : pared with that of 1885, The close of picking is reported the same as last year in the Carolinas, and Texas; one day earlier in Mississippi; two days later in Georgia and Louisiana: four in Tennessee and twenty-one in Ar kansas. The dates are: North Crroliaa, December 2d; South Carolina, Novem ber 30th; Georgia, December 1st; Florida, November 27th; Alabama, De cember 2d; Mississippi, December 7th; Louisiana, December 12th; Texas, De cember 3d; Arkansas, December 15th. The late maturing of the crop extended! the season slightly in a few states. Only in Arkansas was the season lengthened by inability to pick the heavy harvest earlier. Up to February 1, 1885, about 5,500,- 000 bales had gone from the plantations. This would indicate a crop of about 6,- 400,000 bales, a mere trifle above the November indications of the rate of yield. The proportion by states are as fol lows: North Carolina, 87; South Caro lina, 88; Georgia, 85; Florida, 83; Ala bama, 87; Mississippi,; 84; Louisiana,' 88 ; Texas, 80; Arkansas, 81; Tennessee, 88. ..... The quality of the crop is superior. Rarely, if ever, have the returns of cleanness and color combined with the length of staple, equaled these just re ceived. The price of seed ,is low. .. Complaint is made of combinations of oil millers to reduce the prices. Renters will sell at any price, sometimes as low as five or eight cents per bushel. The best planters refuse to sell at ruling rates. The average in Mississippi and Louis iana is ten cents, eleven in Arkansas, twelve in Texas and Tennessee, thirteen in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama) and sixteen in Florida. Feeders of cat-', tie and sheep pay the highest rates. The product is larger than last year in Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas and smaller in other states. The average result from a careful analysis of the present returns, is an aggregate less than two per cent lower than that of last year. ’THE BOSTON STRIKE. Tlie Committee of the Directors Refuee jp Ke-iustate the Strikers. A commit! eo of South Bof-ton strikers met _directqr<Thurgfla^ but failed to reach "a'sett le- ment, and a second cmmrenC'e wag.-'holA that night with the same result. The men made: the proposition that they would return to work if they were taken back in a body, but the directors refused to bind themselves by any such agree ment. They consented, however to take back twenty-five more men than they actually needed, but Ibis was unsatisfac tory. It is generally Understood that the company will attempt t» run cars either tomorrow or Saturday, and the present temper of the men indicates that trouble will attend tbe attempt. On the Cambridge road matters are practically unchanged. One or two cases of intimidation of new men by strikers are reported, but there has been no seri ous trouble. The company-has employed about 150 new men, but no attempt has yet been made to start a car, and itisnot known when there will be. WAS NOT HURT. A Youth Nine Years of Age Walks off a Mov ing Train. On board the Panhandle fast train Thursday were' Mrs.; T. Andrews, of Newport, Ky., with four young children. On reaching Zenia at: five. o’clock: she, roused from a doze to find that her bby, Charley, nine years old, .was missing. The train was searched without finding him. The mother was frantic with fear, for it was Supposed he had fallen off. A locomotive was procured rfnd the con— ductor and a passenger- boarded it to search for the boy. It was very dark, but a strong light was placed on the en gine, and, moving slowly, the searchers looked carefully On both sides of file track, expecting to find a mangled body. But to their surprise, after going' about eight miles, they found the child, with out a scratch or bruise, crouched in a fence corner, waiting for dav light. He could give no explanation, and is sup posed to have walked off the train in his sleep. ; The mother broke down whep a telegram told her he was found and un hurt. A FAMILY MURDERED. Joseph Plews, a farm hand, was ar rested Thursday for the murdet of the’en- tire Dunham family; near Warsaw,.Ind. He is in jail at Warsaw, and the, neigh bors of the murdered family threaten; to; lynch him. Dunham’s poeketbook and $80 in money were found in Plew’s pock ets. He was employed by Dunham, and two weeks ago they quarreled and f?lew was discharged. When he left he threat-. ened to get even with Dunham. A part of Dunham’s scalp was found trampled in the mud, which disproves the theory of suicide. Mrs. Dunham is growing strong er, but is still unconscious. Durham and his child were buried in one grave today. A NEW VOLCANO IN RUSSIA. The inhabitants of Baku, the centre of the great Russian petroleum wells, have been much alarmed over a subterranean explosion, which shook houses and caused considerable damage. At the same time a volcano burst out at Lokbatah, ten miles distant from Baku. For two nights the volcano threw a column of fire pad mud 300 feet high, illuminating the country for miles around; The mud emitted during the eruption already lies from seven to fourteen feet deep over a